"Controversial Insecticides Pervasive In Great Lakes Tributaries"
"U.S. scientists found neonicotinoid insecticides in about three-quarters of samples from 10 major Great Lakes tributaries."
Source: EHN, 01/26/2018
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Govt Scientists Say Controversial Pesticide Killing Endangered Salmon
"The federal government's top fisheries experts say that three widely used pesticides — including the controversial insecticide chlorpyrifos — are jeopardizing the survival of many species of salmon, as well as orcas that feed on those salmon."
Source: NPR, 01/12/2018
Trump’s EPA Could Allow Teenage Workers To Handle Dangerous Pesticides
"If the Environmental Protection Agency follows through with a reform now under consideration, teenage farmworkers and other working minors would once again be allowed to handle dangerous pesticides while on the job."
Source: HuffPost, 01/11/2018
17 Ways Trump Administration Assaulted the Environment Over the Holidays
"While visions of sugarplums danced in some of our heads, the Trump administration had a different vision—of a country unbound by rules that protect people, places, wildlife and the climate. Over the past two weeks, the administration has proposed or finalized changes to how the government and the industries it regulates respond to climate change, migratory birds, clean energy, pesticides and toxic chemicals."
Source: EcoWatch, 01/04/2018
"Trump’s E.P.A. Chemical Safety Nominee Withdraws"
"President Trump’s nominee to oversee the Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical safety division on Wednesday withdrew his name from consideration for the post in the face of mounting opposition."
Source: NY Times, 12/14/2017
"An Open Door for Pesticide Lobbyists at the U.S.D.A."
"At a private meeting in September, congressional aides asked Rebeckah Adcock, a top official at the Department of Agriculture, to reveal the identities of the people serving on the deregulation team she leads at the agency."
Source: NY Times, 11/15/2017
EPA Taking More Advice From Industry — And Ignoring Its Own Scientists
"When the Environmental Protection Agency this week proposed repealing tighter emissions standards for a type of freight trucks, it cited research conducted by Tennessee Tech University but underwritten by the biggest truck manufacturer challenging the rule."
Source: Washington Post, 11/13/2017
"GOP Senators Advance Trump EPA Nominees Over Dems’ Objection"
"A Senate committee voted along party lines Wednesday to advance President Donald Trump’s picks for key posts at the Environmental Protection Agency over the objections of Democrats who pointed to the nominees’ past work for corporate clients they would now regulate."
Source: AP, 10/26/2017
"Developing World Still Struggling With Obsolete Pesticides"
"The cotton fields of sub-Saharan Africa hold a deadly secret—thousands of tons of obsolete pesticides are buried out of sight but slowly taking a toxic toll on the region’s people and environment."
Source: BNA, 10/19/2017
"Military Bases' Contamination Will Affect Water For Generations"
"VICTORVILLE, CA - Once a fighter jet training base critical to the Cold War, little remains of the former George Air Force Base but rows of dilapidated houses, a dismantled military hospital and dangerous chemicals from pesticides, jet fuels and other hazardous wastes that have poisoned the water for decades."
Source: News21, 08/18/2017
